Leach Based Hierarchical Routing Protocol for Monitoring of Over-ground Pipelines Using Linear Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The low cost and better processing power and energy efficiency makes it possible to use large numbers of sensors in a wide variety of applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics health care and various types of pipelines. In monitoring the pipelines, a special class of sensor defined as Linear Wireless Sensor Networks (LSNs) is required having its special characteristics as far as routing is concerned. In this paper a three layered architecture has been proposed for monitoring, and protection of over-ground oil, gas, and water pipelines using wireless sensor networks. The three layers include on the ground, on the pipeline and underground layer. This paper also proposes a architecture a Leach Based Hierarchical Routing Protocol for linear structure wireless sensor networks (LBHRP) for the above mentioned architecture.